The work I do at the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) is to engage people with science. I do this by putting together live events about science for people who either come to our auditorium or we take our events out into the community.

Many of my days are spent thinking and planning the events that we run. Putting on a live show takes a lot of planning so I am often found checking on things, designing props, checking the camera shots and plugging in microphones. On the night of an event though I get to mingle with the guests and help them put on a show to entertain and inform the public about science.

In addition to my work at RiAus I have been writing about science since 2009. I have written for newspapers, magazines and lots of different websites including some of my own. Until very recently I wrote for the American science magazine Scientific American about bacteria and disease on a blog called ‘Disease Prone’.

Over that time I found that most people write about what is in the news that day but I’m sick of reading that kind of writing. Instead my website would be for people to write about things people should know because they are interesting or important, not because its the topic of the day. It would all be StuffPeopleShouldKnow.com 🙂

I’ve already started putting it all together but the cash would make it a reality which would be very exciting 🙂